ENA NS 71.16

Letter from Ibrāhīm al-Naqīb to ʿAbd al-Karīm. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman era. The sender repeatedly asserts that he serves as the representative or head (naqīb) of 'the councils' (al-majālis) in a certain community (al-jamāʿa), and that there is no naqīb other than him. However, the community apparently wishes to receive an order from the majlis confirming him in this position. So the addressee is asked to inform 'them' (the majālis? the community?) and to greet them for the holiday. There is a basmala at the top, a tarjama (sender's name) in the right margin, and the first two lines of the letter are indented. Opens with a brief taqbīl ("kissing the earth") and inhāʾ ("the slave reports...") and ends with a ḥamdala. YU. ASE.
Editor: Ed. Yusuf Umrethwala and Alan Elbaum, (in Arabic) (2022) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hB7odJWilYWddJnncUHBkosMeDJOWlwX99PKAdRxSfk/edit.
Library: JTS
Type: Letter